Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1905
Number:45 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Robert Koch
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1843
Year, Death:1910
Profession:prof
University:Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905
 
Motivation:Bacteriological cultivation methods; the sporulation of the anthrax virus, cultivation of the bacillus of tuberculosis and cholera vibrio, the existence and role of protozoa in some human and animal diseases.
 
Nominator:
Name:Eduard Hitzig
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1839
Year, Death:1907
Profession:prof
University:Halle University
City:Halle
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: University: Originally the "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten", the name was later changed to "Robert Koch Institut".